Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting The Community

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: Allen Pulsifer wrote: As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post.

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting The Community

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Allen Pulsifer pulsi...@openoffice.org wrote on 06/02/2011 06:58:45 PM: snip Second, if Apache takes on OpenOffice, it will instantly become the Apache project with the largest number of end-users (if you include the number of

RE: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting The Community

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Jagielski wrote: Allen Pulsifer wrote: As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post. +1 --- Noel

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting The Community

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 20:22, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: ... The only concrete thing I've heard so far is the question of whether subversion can handle the project. I would be extremely surprised if Subversion could not handle it. I'd like to know more about the problems that the OO.o devs